1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

Let, as in the Rubaiyat, the "four and seventy jarring sects" dis– pute the merits of crushed ice and shaved ice, of pounded mint, muddled mint and only bruised mint (adjectives which so often lend themselves equally handily to the julep drinkers themselves) and the virtue of just a small slug of overproof Jamaica rum floating on top of the whole creation. This is the Stork julep and it has stayed and strengthened many brave meri and fair women, confirming them in the almost ir:_efutable belief that most of the good things of the world come in glass bottles and that the very best of them say bour· bon on the outside:

Mint Julep:

2 oz. bourbon I tsp. sugar 4 sprigs mint

Mash with muddler. Fill the silver mug with shaved ice. Stir until the outside of the mug is frosted. Decorate with sprigs of mint and serve with straws. Add green cherry.

Personally, the author cleaves to a slight variance of the foregoing: four ounces of Jack Daniel's proof bourbon with a float of two ounces of Hines' Triomph Cognac on top. Officer, please back the patrol wagon nearer the curb; the step is too high for my mother.

106: Stork Club Bar Book